27 June 18 Geologists warn that the Barndioota region is a dangerous site for nuclear waste dumping. Brett Stokes -Submission on the illegality of the campaign for a nuclear waste dump in South Australia. Brett Stokes shows how plans for nuclear waste dumping in South Australia have breached S.A. law.

2 March 2018 Our NEW PAGE on Submissions on Radioactive Waste Code. David Noonan’s Submission on Required Protection of Cultural Heritage from impact by Disposal Facility Site selection AND on the Principal of Non-Imposition of Disposal Facilities

7 April Does Australia REALLY need a radioactive waste facility in outback South Australia? ANSTO admits that Federal waste plan is for reactor generated wastes, and that no longterm disposal plan exists. Some enthusiasts for nuclear waste dump at Kimba, but many opponents.

9 December 16 According to Bob Hawke, Aborigines can get a decent life only if Australia imports nuclear waste? South Australian nuclear waste dump fans, (members of Ben Heard’s “Bright New World Nuclear Propaganda”) write to politicians

28 October ‘Nuclear Citizens’ Jury: observer’ – CARA Director John Phalen (Director Nuclear Engagement at Department of the Premier and Cabinet) – has been booted out of Basecamp after requests from multiple jurors.

12 June Antinuclear Australia is surveying all Labor MPs, Senators and Candidates, as to which way they would vote, if Labor moved to change its policy against nuclear expansion, including importing nuclear waste. You can see the survey question at ELECTION 2016. Scroll right down, past the Nick Xenophon team, and list of Labor politicians, to find the message sent to Labor politicians.

Antinuclear Australia is also surveying Nick Xenophon Team politicians, to find out what each thinks about Australia importing nuclear waste.

22 May This page is taking over from the Royal Commission page. You would think that South Australia’s Nuclear Royal Commission was over. But No. The South Australian government is now using the Citizens’ Juries to continue the work of the RC.

The first Citizens’ Jury is in no way a jury.

It seems to have been given the job of further “educating” the public on the recommendations of the RC.

.A Citizens’ Jury should be tasked with making a judgement about something. It should not be a promotional exercise.

The jury is asked to produce an independent guide to help every South Australian understand the recommendations raised by the Royal Commission’s report.

FEDERALSubmissions about the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility in Kimba or the Flinders Ranges. The Standing Committee on Environment and Energy are accepting submissions to the ‘Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia’ until 16 September 2019. Please write your own submission or use FOE’s online proforma.

Nuclear facilities, including power stations and radioactive waste dumps, are now banned in Queensland.

Nuclear facilities banned under the Act include:

·nuclear reactors (whether used to generate electricity or not);

·uranium conversion and enrichment plants;

·nuclear fuel fabrication plants;

·spent fuel processing plants; and

·facilities used to store or dispose of material associated with the nuclear fuel cycle e.g. radioactive waste material.

Exemptions under the legislation include facilities for the storage or disposal of waste material resulting from research or medical purposes, and the operation of a nuclear-powered vessel.

1 FEDERALSubmissions about the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility in Kimba or the Flinders Ranges. The Standing Committee on Environment and Energy are accepting submissions to the ‘Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia’ until 16 September 2019. Please write your own submission or use FOE’s online proforma.

Australia has long rejected nuclear power, and it is banned in Federal and State laws. The nuclear lobby is out to first repeal those laws, and then to get the Australian government to commit to buying probably large numbers of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) . This could mean first importing plutonium and/or enriched uranium, as some reactor models, (thorium ones) require these to get the fission process started. That would, in effect, mean importing nuclear wastes.

There’s an all-too short period for people to send in Submissions to the 4 Parliamentary Inquiries now in progress.